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Drinking alcohol is an important cause of cancer. The main ingredient in alcoholic drinks which causes cancer is ethanol. A summary of the evidence linking alcohol and cancer can be found at the link below. via Alcohol and cancer : Cancer Council Western Australia.
Paul Dillon, author of "Teenagers, Alcohol and Drugs"and Generation Next speaker says that in today's society children are introduced to drugs from an early age; if they have a cough we give then ‘medicine’ for it. So there is no reason why we can’t introduce the idea of drugs at an early age and build [...]
10 tips for parents around teen binge drinking. By Collett Smart The wrestling that occurs in the mind of a teenager when they feel the pressure of peers to drink is enormous. However, when an adult serves up alcohol at a teenage party, this communicates to teens that the adult is both condoning and [...]
Police will be given new powers to stop parents turning a blind eye to under-age drinking, making it a criminal offence to host house parties where alcohol is consumed by under-18s. Under the plan being pushed by the O'Farrell government to make it easier for police to fight the teenage booze culture, adults would face [...]
CHILDREN are the victims of alcohol-related harm in more than a fifth of Australian households, a study has found, adding weight to calls for the price of alcohol sold in bottle shops to be increased to discourage high quantities being consumed in homes. Most of the children were harmed by immediate family members or by [...]
You can take comfort from the fact that there is now academic underpinning for the effect known commonly as "beer goggles". In scientific terms, even a little alcohol reduces the ability to assess facial symmetry, which plays a key role in attractiveness and human mate selection.The effect is particularly pronounced in women, with female drinkers [...]
Alcohol, Resilience, Pop Culture and the Brain, Assoc Prof Mike Nagel, 14 mins from Generation Next on Vimeo. Associate Professor Mike Nagel Duration: 14 mins Assoc Prof Mike Nagel will be speaking at our Mental Health and Wellbeing Seminars on applying the new brain science to working with young people. The remaining seminars for this [...]
AUSTRALIA has a drinking problem - and it's only going to get worse. A study has revealed more than 75 per cent of people believe we drink too much. More than four million Australians are drinking to get drunk, including two million who get rotten at least once a month. The Foundation for Alcohol Research [...]
Young girls are more likely to ride in a car with a driver who had been drinking than young boys. Thirty percent of ninth grade girls reported having ever ridden in a car with a driver who had been drinking compared to 25.3% of ninth grade boys.12 While boys are still more likely to be [...]
ALCOHOL is fast becoming the No. 1 threat facing Australian children and there is no adequate system in place to stop them being exposed to alcohol advertising, Australia's foremost child health expert, Fiona Stanley, says. The former Australian of the Year will chair a new alternative alcohol advertising review body, which health experts say is [...]
